Presidential Power and National Violence: James K. Polk’s Rhetorical Transfer of Savageryhttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/638217
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James Knox Polk’s presidency has received attention for the unusual conditions of his nomination and election, his prosecution of war with Mexico, and his consolidation of the nation via negotiations with the British for the Oregon territory.1 Yet scant attention has been paid to how he ended his war with Mexico and how his rhetoric shaped the postwar era, particularly in terms of the management and incorporation of the acquired territory.2 Studies that explicitly examine Polk’s rhetoric are limited. Robert L. Ivie detailed Polk’s justification for war with Mexico and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell examined the form of that rhetoric.3 While useful in demonstrating how Polk forced the nation into war, both focus on the
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallPresidential Power and National Violence: James K. Polk’s Rhetorical Transfer of Savagery2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressPresidential Power and National Violence: James K. Polk’s Rhetorical Transfer of SavageryIndians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®1343912016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16“Sacred fire of liberty”: The Constitutional Origins of Washington’s First Inaugural Addresshttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/638218
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“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Even in a document remarkable for its combination of precision and plasticity, Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution does not give us much to go on. Nor do the remaining sections, attending to matters of election, qualification, and other procedural concerns, specify in what, exactly, such “executive Power” may be said to inhere. We do learn that the executive is to serve as commander in chief, that he is to wield powers of pardon, appointment, treaty making, and to otherwise “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” This degree of indeterminacy was not, it must be said, for lack of trying: the 55
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmall“Sacred fire of liberty”: The Constitutional Origins of Washington’s First Inaugural Address2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University Press“Sacred fire of liberty”: The Constitutional Origins of Washington’s First Inaugural AddressIndians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®1091612016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16Reagan’s Strategy for the Cold War and the Evil Empire Addresshttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/638219
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Twenty-seven years after the end of the Reagan presidency, there is universal agreement that the Reagan administration played an important role in the end game of the Cold War, but there is sharp disagreement on what that role was. In fact, there are three sharply conflicting views of the role that Reagan’s policies and rhetoric toward the Soviet Union played in the final stages of the Cold War.1 On the one hand, many conservatives argue that aggressive policies, including the arms buildup (especially the Strategic Defense Initiative [SDI] —“Star Wars”) and a sharp rhetorical attack on the legitimacy of the Soviet system (especially in the Evil Empire speech), caused the Soviet Union to collapse.2 For
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallReagan’s Strategy for the Cold War and the Evil Empire Address2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressReagan’s Strategy for the Cold War and the Evil Empire AddressIndians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®1537782016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16Can a Memorial Communicate Embodied Trauma?: Reenacting Civilian Bodies in the No Gun Ri Peace Parkhttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/638220
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It has been more than a decade since the story about GIs killing No Gun Ri civilians in South Korea during the Korean War appeared in U.S. newspapers, becoming a Pulitzer Prize–winning story in 2000. The No Gun Ri memory came as a shocking exposure of one of the U.S. atrocities during the Korean War that has barely appeared in either the South Korean or the U.S. state-sanctioned, official commemoration of the war. Responding to the media’s intense coverage, the U.S. government finally officially acknowledged the occurrence of the No Gun Ri killings, yet it failed to examine the incident within the larger context of the war in which its troops contributed to a high casualty of civilians by indiscriminate
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallCan a Memorial Communicate Embodied Trauma?: Reenacting Civilian Bodies in the No Gun Ri Peace Park2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressCan a Memorial Communicate Embodied Trauma?: Reenacting Civilian Bodies in the No Gun Ri Peace ParkIndians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®946232016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Approaches to the Obama Presidencyhttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/638221
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With President Barack Obama now in the twilight of his second term in office, it is fitting that the literature chronicling him is in something of a postnovelty phase. The collective gaze of the writings on Obama is now trained on his White House years. Rather than try to fill out some aspect of the biography of a man who was at one time unknown, many contemporary projects grapple instead with Obama’s substantive presidential record. Along with the shift in focus, there has also been a shift in how authors treat Obama. Whereas he was once a novelty, something to be picked up, measured, categorized, and placed in the correct stack, the domestication of Obama has reached an advanced stage with recent arguments
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallParadigmatic and Syntagmatic Approaches to the Obama Presidency2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressParadigmatic and Syntagmatic Approaches to the Obama PresidencyIndians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®394642016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16A Century of Communication Studies: The Unfinished Conversation ed. by Pat J. Gehrke and William M. Keith (review)http://muse.jhu.edu/article/638222
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The National Communication Association (NCA) recently turned 100. Commemorations abounded at the annual convention in Chicago and in the association’s journals. Among these commemorations is a self-consciously nondefinitive collection of 11 essays edited by Pat J. Gehrke and William M. Keith, aptly subtitled The Unfinished Conversation. The essays in this “critical genealogy of the field of communication” (3) effectively evoke a sense of the association as one of the only forces organizing the field, while simultaneously questioning this organizing force. Whether through surveys of research or snapshots of a moment or subfield, each chapter presents a different account of the years between 1914 and 2014.
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallA Century of Communication Studies: The Unfinished Conversation ed. by Pat J. Gehrke and William M. Keith (review)2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressA Century of Communication Studies: The Unfinished Conversation ed. by Pat J. Gehrke and William M. Keith (review)Indians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®108642016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16After the Public Turn: Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur by Frank Farmer (review)http://muse.jhu.edu/article/638223
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In their staging of dyadic conversations between rhetorical scholars in English and communication studies, the organizers of the 2014 Rhetoric Society of America conference paired Professor Frank Farmer from the University of Kansas and Professor G. Thomas Goodnight from the University of Southern California on the topic of “Publics, Publicity, and Critical Citizenship.” A scholar on the topics of voice, style, listening, dialogue, and pedagogy, Farmer pulls these and other themes together in his compelling After the Public Turn: Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur. Farmer forwards the “citizen bricoleur” as an exemplar of contemporary critical citizenship. The citizen bricoleur, further
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallAfter the Public Turn: Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur by Frank Farmer (review)2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressAfter the Public Turn: Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur by Frank Farmer (review)Indians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®101912016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other ed. by Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson (review)http://muse.jhu.edu/article/638224
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In 1969, civil rights activist and music legend Nina Simone was asked in an interview what freedom meant to her. Pondering her answer, Ms. Simone briefly hesitated before saying, “I’ll tell you what freedom is to me—no fear.” The historical context in which Ms. Simone uttered this statement, coupled with her dedication to social justice, gives Ms. Simone’s answer a synchronous profundity and clarity that still reverberates in the contemporary era where we celebrate important civil rights victories while simultaneously bearing witness to persistent racial, gender, and class animus; social unrest; and injustice.
This powerful collection of essays, like Simone’s haunting words, strip bare the
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallPhilosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other ed. by Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson (review)2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressPhilosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other ed. by Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson (review)Indians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®74212016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy by Lynda Walsh (review)http://muse.jhu.edu/article/638225
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Scholarship at the intersection of public address and the rhetoric of science has grappled with the issue of how polities draw upon experts in debates about policy. Fears about ceding policy decisions to scientists vie with concerns about policymakers ignoring inconvenient scientific truths. Scholars question what rhetorical forms expert advisors should mimic. One of the oldest rhetorical models for expert advice is the prophet. The assumption of that role aims to vouchsafe the veracity of the prophet-expert’s advice, but it risks setting that expertise and advice beyond the bounds of debate. Lynda Walsh tackles the millennia-spanning task of tracking the development and deployment of prophetic ethos and its
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallScientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy by Lynda Walsh (review)2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressScientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy by Lynda Walsh (review)Indians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®121522016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16Burke in the Archives: Using the Past to Transform the Future of Burkean Studies ed. by Dana Anderson and Jessica Enoch (review)http://muse.jhu.edu/article/638226
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Anderson and Enoch conceived this volume as a tribute to Jack Selzer, their teacher at Penn State University and a pioneer in historical study of Kenneth Burke. Selzer has led seminars for years exploiting the rich Kenneth Burke Papers in the Eberly Family Special Collections at Penn State. Eleven of his students developed their projects from that seminar into essays for this volume.
Obviously this collection can be read by Burkean scholars for the purposes articulated in the subtitle. Burkean studies has been amazingly diverse in recent years, stimulated by the KB Journal, the triennial conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, and an active literature from scholarly presses. This work has
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallBurke in the Archives: Using the Past to Transform the Future of Burkean Studies ed. by Dana Anderson and Jessica Enoch (review)2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressBurke in the Archives: Using the Past to Transform the Future of Burkean Studies ed. by Dana Anderson and Jessica Enoch (review)Indians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®97882016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16Walter Lippmann: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory by Sue Curry Jansen (review)http://muse.jhu.edu/article/638227
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Walter Lippmann was a towering figure who has received too little attention in rhetorical studies. To the extent that Lippmann has been on our collective radar screens, it has typically been as John Dewey’s purported adversary in the so-called “Lippmann–Dewey” debate—where Lippmann, the elitist critic of public opinion and champion of expertise, draws the short straw against Dewey, the participatory democrat and hero of American pragmatism. Sue Curry Jansen’s excellent short study makes a new Lippmann available. She demolishes two-dimensional portraits, shows the “debate” with Dewey was a phantom invented in the 1980s, and offers a nuanced reconstruction that shows how Lippmann’s ideas about public
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallWalter Lippmann: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory by Sue Curry Jansen (review)2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressWalter Lippmann: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory by Sue Curry Jansen (review)Indians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®111212016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16Imaging Hoover Dam: The Making of a Cultural Icon by Anthony F. Arrigo (review)http://muse.jhu.edu/article/638228
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During the summer of my 12th year, my aunt took me to see the Hoover Dam. The image in my head is different than any physical image I have seen since that time. This type of shifting representation is the impetus for Anthony F. Arrigo’s masterful work Imaging Hoover Dam: The Making of a Cultural Icon. Arrigo argues there is not a singular image that stands as the definitive representation of Hoover Dam. Rather, the variety of images associated with Hoover Dam were used by multiple parties to create perceptions about the dam, its construction, its meaning, and its utility. In addition, Arrigo explores how the absence of images also helped to construct perceptions about the dam. More than an analysis of
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallImaging Hoover Dam: The Making of a Cultural Icon by Anthony F. Arrigo (review)2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressImaging Hoover Dam: The Making of a Cultural Icon by Anthony F. Arrigo (review)Indians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®86482016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16Watching Women’s Liberation 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network News by Bonnie J. Dow (review)http://muse.jhu.edu/article/638229
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The first time I taught a gender and communication course, I was excited to share the stories of the women who had defined the first and second waves and determined to help students identify their roles moving forward. I remember one woman sitting in the front row, clearly motivated to be there. She appeared older than I was and likely had a firsthand memory of 1970, the focus of Bonnie Dow’s Watching Women’s Liberation 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network News. I asked students what, if any, connection they had with the term feminism. This particular student declared herself a fervent feminist and used the story of the (supposed) bra burning at the 1968 Miss America Pageant as evidence in her
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/171/image/coversmallWatching Women’s Liberation 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network News by Bonnie J. Dow (review)2016-11-16text/htmlen-USMichigan State University PressWatching Women’s Liberation 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network News by Bonnie J. Dow (review)Indians of North AmericaPolk, James K.RhetoricExecutive powerSoviet UnionUnited StatesCollective memoryWar memorialsKorean War, 1950-1953CommunicationScienceBurke, Kenneth,Lippmann, Walter,Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)2016-11-162016TWOProject MUSE®113152016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-11-16